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"A segment of aviation history, rather than a personal story of a popular novelist."

This might better be defined as a chapter in autobiography, for here is the Nevil Shute (Norway) occasionally glimpsed in some of his novels, as aeronautical engineer, and virtually only that.
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"At times difficult, at times technical, at times distasteful to those who pigeonhole religion as apart from daily life- there is nonetheless that emphasis on seeking spiritual values which is a trend in modern fiction not to be overlooked."

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A story told on two levels of perception and the reader- an in some of Shute's other books- is called on to accept a shift of personality, an acutely aware extra sensory perception.
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"Shute's name- and the elements of the story itself-recommend it as a surely popular novel."

This has the makings of a first rate story, but the indirect approach- as an elderly lawyer tells the story, now as told or written to him, now in direct narrative form, somehow robs it of the basic human values inherent in the story itself.
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"His recent death- and the choice of this last book by the Book-of-the-Month insure a more than customary receptivity."

Keith Stewart, a toolroom fitter who had given up his factory job to devote himself to his hobby of miniature machines and to writing about them in a magazine that made friends for him around the world, recalls somewhat the colorless little Mr. Honey of No Highway.
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"Shute, in these early writings, shows a gift for combining his major factual interest with a sense of character, but the plot aspects seem somewhat immature, though the subject matter sustains the interest."

While posthumously published, Stephen Morris actually brings together two early, short novels, never before published.
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